Anthologies of Mexican Women Flash Fiction Writers Against the Canon?

Abstract

This article analyzes anthologies dedicated to disseminating the work of female flash-fiction writers in Mexico. It highlights authors, themes, and prefaces to distinguish the objectives of the anthologists, as well as the interests of the authors who were invited or who responded to the compilers' thematic proposals. Each anthology is analyzed, and a comparative study highlights both the individual concerns of each book and their shared interests, despite the projects being quite distinct. Points of intersection often relate to expressive needs: gender-based violence, mythical figures, the role of women, women's writing, patriarchal or male-dominated history, eroticism, infidelity, abuse, and so on. Overlaps regarding participating writers are identified, and an interpretive proposal concerning this phenomenon is offered. Furthermore, the article notes that these types of projects, which do not aim to champion a specific generational, stylistic, or thematic banner, but rather to disseminate the writers' work.